They were given power over a fourth of the earth to kill by sword, famine and plague, and by the wild beasts of the earth - Revelations Chapter 6. The Four Horsemen - War, Pestilence, Famine, Death - living embodiments of the Dread Ages of Apokolips. Freed from thrall to the mad geniuses who first summoned them, the Horsemen look to their own dark ambition, to remake the Earth in their image - and only the combined might of Superman, Batman, and Wonder Woman can stop them.